june we bid you farewell...

back in denver. its hard to believe tomorrow is the first day of july. the summer is already going so fast. being in columbus was great. it was everything great you love about home. i just happened to plan my trip around comfest weekend. say what you will about comfest, it in many ways is the best columbus has to offer in one place, which is why i love it. below is a pictoral summary of the weekend.

chris

chris was a friend of my organization. when we had a team in mauritania he was a great help and friend to us. please pray for his wife and four kids. this is a loss for us 

Chris Leggett

she belongs to her mother and the state of ohio...

view from stauffs down grandview ave.

morning walk down grandview avenue

it is such a strange world when you come home after being gone from it for so long. everything seems new and beautiful. things that seemed so ordinary when you passed them day in and day out are like a new adventure. i flew home sunday nights for seven days. it has been such a wonderful time back. without intentionally planning it i scheduled my trip around comfest.  june in ohio is by far the most beautiful. comfest (community festival) is often the last weekend of the month and to many the grand finale of early summer in columbus. this year is no different. having come back from an unseasonably cool summer in denver it is almost refreshing to come back to a  hazy, hot, and humid city. walking around this morning it was already 83 and the humidity was so thick you could taste the air. There is something about this i would have found infuriating this time last year, but today it seems almost nostalgic. it is crazy how our brains do this. i'll post more later this week after comfest. until then i'll leave you with this song that i've been loving this week. It is by a band called company of thieves...seriously check it out.

company of thieves- oscar wilde

and the world spins madly on...

i am twenty six years old. this statement shocks me a bit even now as i sit at the top of my spiral staircase on a lazy june afternoon listening to benny goodman on the record player.( i have had a whole week to get used to the idea). i love my life. i can't really say it enough but, it is soo true. i love it. in january this year i gave up my medicore paying job serving coffee to work for a non-profit in denver colorado. i make nothing. i have people who believe in what i do and donate. I pay the bills off of people's generosity. it is a crazy, but so amazing life. at twenty-six i love the feeling of knowing i have a good 50 years ahead of me to continue this crazy ride. i love the feeling of being free from expectations to live up to someone elses thoughts of success. it is unbelievably freeing to discover ways to live simpler and simpler and enjoy the things that don't cost me everything, but are worth so much. it is unbelievably satisfying to know what i am doing is helping people. i am in the business of hope, and the return on investment never ceases to amaze me.